Woo Hoo - the new grill came today. Did I mention it's raining? Of course it is, it had to be. All you New England people can thank me for the much needed precipitation. It's supposed to rain tomorrow too. Ha!

I looked at the directions sent along on how to put the grill cart together. I am SO glad we had the store do it! Holy smokes we would have been trying to get it done for the next 2-3 weeks. Anyhow, we put it first in the garage and I asked the guy to show me how to put the propane tank on - looks easy enough. Then they left. Even better - major Kudos to the driver for noticing we have low hanging power lines and he had a very large truck. He stopped before he did any damage - whew!

Next thing I did was find a place to fill the propane tank. First place I went only did trading of tanks - I bought this tank I don't want to be trading it around! Besides, I've seen some of the pieces of crap they give out - I wouldn't feel safe with those anywhere near my grill. However, they did direct me to a store only a few blocks away that would fill my tank for me. At the moment we are contemplating getting a second tank for the inevitable time I run out of propane in the middle of cooking dinner.

I get home, it's still raining, but I decide the heck with it and pull the grill out on to the back patio and hook up the tank - no problem. Whew - most complicated part down. Then I took out the grates (heavy suckers!) and washed off the machine oil.

After beloved husband got home - we fired up the burners. Then stood kinda looking at it for a few minutes - I'm sure we made a picture straight out of a sitcom. Then we put the lid down and went inside to wait about 10 minutes. Smoke (light smoke) started coming out from the lid. We're guessing it was burning off excess oils from when they made it. After it hit 500 degrees, we opened it - let it cool a bit - then closed it and reheated.

Tonight - in celebration - we had steak. It turned out wonderfully well! I'll have to work on the timing thing. It seems the cook time was a bit faster than our convection oven. I'm looking forward to doing veggies next to the meat - maybe tomorrow. That will be fun.

End result - an excellent dinner - no fires. I may be able to get the hang of this thing.

Posted by: Teresa in Food and Drink at 03:45 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 I'm confused... how can you have an excellent dinner if there were no fires? :-)

Posted by: Harvey at May 03, 2006 04:31 AM (L7a63)

2 Harvey - you nut! *grin*

Posted by: Teresa at May 03, 2006 07:47 AM (FZwDL)

3 That steak sure sounds good... Our grill was carried off by Hurricane Wilma, but we haven't bothered with getting another... I never learned how to grill properly... and everything was either undercooked or, yes... charred.

Posted by: pam at May 03, 2006 03:49 PM (l6NIn)

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